Bard envisions the liberal arts institution as the hub of a network, rather than a single, self-contained campus. Numerous institutes for special study are available on and off campus, connecting Bard students to the greater community.

The Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College embodies the fundamental belief that education and civil society are inextricably linked. In an age of information overload, it is more important than ever that citizens be educated and trained to think critically and be actively engaged with issues affecting public life.

Bard Faculty

Bard’s extraordinary faculty are dedicated to the philosophy of teaching. Today and throughout Bard’s history, members of the faculty have effected change in medicine, the arts and letters, international affairs, journalism, scientific research, and education, among other endeavors. These distinguished scholars are advisers as well as instructors: Bard has no graduate teaching assistants. And the average class size of 16 in the Lower College and 12 in the Upper College allows for intimate discussions and one-on-one interaction.

02-06-2018: The Wall Street Journal has announced that Bard College professor and esteemed journalist Walter Russell Mead is now a columnist for its opinion pages. Mead, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities, has been teaching American foreign policy and grand strategy at Bard since 2010. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at Hudson Institute, and Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Bosch Stiftung in Berlin. Mead’s weekly “Global View” column on foreign affairs began on February 6.http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2969

11-09-2017: The Museum of Modern Art will exhibit photographs spanning Stephen Shore's entire career. This is the first survey in New York of this magnitude, and will be on view November 19 – May 28, 2018. Over the last five decades, Professor Shore has "conducted a continual, restless interrogation of image making, from the gelatin silver prints he made as a teenager to his current engagement with digital platforms." He is "One of the most significant photographers of our time."https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3769?locale=en

Photo: Pete Mauney '93 MFA '00

11-06-2017: The study, "Trojan Females and Judas Goats: Evolutionary Traps as Tools in Wildlife Management," brings together the science from the pest-control, eco-evolutionary, and conservation communities to create a conceptual framework by which evolutionary traps can be repurposed as tools of deception to eliminate or control target pest species.http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2948

10-15-2017: Intolerance: Political Animals and Their Prey is the product of a year-long multi-disciplinary collaboration between faculty members of Bard College and the United States Military Academy at West Point. The project involved parallel seminar courses at both institutions along with joint sessions, all focused on the central theme of intolerance, and culminated in a three-day academic conference at Bard in the spring of 2015. This volume inaugurates a new series being published by Hamilton Books under the general title, Dialogues on Social Issues: Bard College and West Point.

Faculty Profiles

Joseph Luzzi

Joseph Luzzi holds a B.A. cum laude in political science from Tufts University, an M.A. in French literature from New York University, and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Italian literature from Yale University. He is a professor of comparative literature at Bard College.